Children's Literature

Works related to Russian children's literature or children in Russia


Road to Life: An Epic in Education, Makarenko, Anton Semenovich (1888-1939), An Epic in Education. New York, 1973. First published in 1951, by Progress Publishers.
Socialist experiment for the reform and education of adolescent delinquents in Ukraine during the 1920's. It is a must read for anyone serious about thinking about the relation of education and human transformation.

Makarenko, His Life and Work; articles, talks and reminiscences, Moscow, Foreign Languages Pub. House, 1963
Card catalog contents: Reminiscences of Makarenko; the life stories of his pupils: From the book Across the Soviet Union, by M. Gorky. Reminiscences, by G. Makarenko. Reminiscences, by S. Kalabalin. The multiplication table, by Y. Roitenberg. My teacher, by N. Ferre. Gorky visits the Gorkyites. Who is Alyosha Ziryansky? By A. Zemlyansky. Here is your Marianna! By K. Boriskina. Meetings with Makarenko, by K. Chukovsky. The happiness of unrest, by V. Fink. The life patterns of Makarenko's pupils, by F. Vigdorova.--Makarenko on education (talks, articles, letters); Lectures on the education of children (abridged) Extract from the article The family and children's upbringing. Questions answered. Extract from the article Education in the family and at school. My experience. From my own practice. A short bibliography

A Book For Parents, written in co-operation with Galina Stakhievna Makarenko. Translated from the Russian by Robert Daglish, Foreign Languages Pub. House, 1954.
Child rearing, children in the Soviet Union.

Children in the Land of Socialism, Anton Semenovich Makarenko, Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1939.
Notes: A brochure issued in connection with the New York World's Fair in 1939.